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Capnomancy vs Libanomancy - What's the difference?

capnomancy | libanomancy |

As nouns the difference between capnomancy and libanomancy

is that capnomancy is divination by interpreting smoke rising from a fire. A form of pyromancy while libanomancy is divination by interpreting burning incense smoke. Started in Mesopotamia and later travelled to Egypt and Europe. A form of capnomancy.

capnomancy

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Alternative forms

* kapnomancy

Noun

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  • Divination by interpreting smoke rising from a fire. A form of pyromancy.
  • * 1610 , Vives in J. Healey Saint Augustine of the Citie of God
    • Diuination generally was done by diuers means...by smoake, Capnomancy .
  • * 1897 , Three Bks Occult Phil. lvii. (Agrippa)
    • To these is also added Capnomancy , so called from smoke, because it searcheth into the flame and smoke; and thin colors, sounds and motions when they are carried upright, or on one side, or round...

    libanomancy

    English

    Noun

    (head) (also libranomancy''', '''livanomancy''', and '''knissomancy )
  • Divination by interpreting burning incense smoke. Started in Mesopotamia and later travelled to Egypt and Europe. A form of capnomancy.

    • Quotations

    :: Weyer De praestigiis daemonum xii.: libanomanteia, 1583 ::"By Libanomancy, for the which we shall need but a little Frankincense." -- Gargantua & Pantagruel iii. xxv. 133, Urquhart translating Rabelais, 1660. ::"Livanomancy, by burning of frankincense." -- Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology, Robbins, 1959